Cultural regatta

The Maritime Museum will be a cultural showcase for the America’s Cup, with activities to bring us closer to the technology and innovation behind the regattas, the work and the dreams of seafaring women and the sailing tradition in Catalonia:

• Exhibition “Competing at sea: sailing regattas in Catalonia”  (June-December)
• Exhibition “Penèlope, la mar és teva!” [Penelope, the sea is yours!] (June-December)
• Presentation of the book Bucked in the Yarn, by Terry Stevenson (29 August)
• Series of talks “Una copa per la Copa” [Let's drink to the Cup] (September-October)
• Children’s activity “De regata al Museu” [Regatta at the Museum] (5 October)
• Session on old photographs about classic sailing boat regattas (29 October)
• Round Table Discussion: "Preserving America's Cup information. Barcelona 2024". Activity finished
   

The waves from the America’s Cup are also going to make a splash at the 17th edition of the Festa de la Ciència. Water will be one of the programme’s central themes, which will feature activities relating to:

• The work of the Ocean Science Decade for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)) to protect the ecosystems of our seas and oceans. 
• The drought. 
• The consolidation of Barcelona as a world leader in nautical activities and the blue economy, as the host city for the America’s Cup.
   

This exhibition will use the history of Barcelona’s relationship with its seafront to look at the challenges faced by coastal societies around the world in the current climate crisis, forcing us to rethink our relationship with the sea.

An innovative perspective on the subject that looks to architecture, fashion, technology, design, science and art for solutions.  

• "L’Oceà parla. Noves ecologies i economies del mar" [The Ocean speaks. New ecologies and economies of the sea] exhibition (10 October-23 February 2025)
   

The sea also takes centre stage at the libraries, with a cycle of talks about the culture of the sea, nautical sports and maritime expeditions; an activity for the Festival Liternatura and a reading club to take us on a voyage through the finest pages in ocean literature. You can take part in the activities at 25 libraries in the city.

• Cycle of talks “Mar de fons” (June-July and October-December)
• Activity devoted to the sea in the Festival Liternatura, in collaboration with Catalan Book Week and as part of this event (28 September).
• Reading clubs for literature classics with a maritime theme (June-July)
• “A sea of books”. Summer workshops for families
  
   

The Mapfre Foundation's KBr Photography Centre is presenting a retrospective exhibition on photographer Louis Stettner (New York, 1922 - Paris, 2016). The exhibition, which brings together nearly 180 photographs, includes a series of photographs, taken in 1956, when the photographer accompanied two Ibizan fishermen during their daily fishing routine. In this kind of portraits, which celebrate strength and vitality, Stettner emphasises the dignity of human beings.

• “Louis Stettner” exhibition (6 June-15 September)
   

Casa Asia organises a programme of three activities to introduce New Zealand, the winner of the latest edition of the America's Cup, through its writers, cinema, and science. The schedule and location of the activities will be announced shortly. 

• New Zealand, through meetings with its writers
• Showcase of New Zealand cinema in Barcelona
• Educational workshop: ‘Penguins, sentinels of the ocean’